"Chile - Growing in Equality" is the name of the campaign launched by the government of Michelle Bachelet to advertise its programme "Iguala.cl", aimed at certifying state and private companies that comply with gender equity standards for their employees.
A Saudi family beat to death two Indonesian women workers in an attack that Human Rights Watch said Friday highlighted the government's failure to deal with employers who seriously abuse domestic staff.
Women’s right to abortion, and the effective implementation of social policies, especially those directly concerning women, will be key issues at the Second National Conference on Policies for Women, to be held in Brasilia from Friday to Monday.
A number of Saudi women participated with other Muslim women from around the world in a leadership program earlier this month on Capitol Hill and George Washington University with the aim of empowering Muslim women to promote peaceful change in their communities.
A new labour law intended to help part-time workers secure permanency in their jobs has resulted in thousands of overworked, underpaid women losing their jobs and spawned ugly labour disputes.
Korotoumou Mariko-Thera, spokesperson for the Framework for Co-operation of Women in Political Parties -- an umbrella body -- told the agency that the 2007-2012 legislature could even find itself without female representatives. In the previous parliament, 14 of the 147 legislators were women.
Things are starting to change for women in Africa and women themselves are behind the move. So says Ms. Anne Marie Goetz, who heads a team working on governance, peace and security issues at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
The United Nations all-female Indian police unit in Liberia, the first such unit deployed in peacekeeping missions, not only demonstrates gender equality but also serves as an encouragement for Liberian women to become police officers themselves, the top UN envoy to the West African country has s
Activists in Kenya have resumed efforts to legislate an increase in the number of women occupying seats in the East African country's parliament, this after a constitutional amendment bill that would have created 50 special seats for women was thrown out by the governing body.